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Leicester City legend Alan Birchenall saved by nurse

A nurse has described how it took four shocks with a defibrillator to revive Leicester City legend Alan Birchenall after he collapsed on stage.

"The Birch", 71, was at the Leicester Mercury Sports Awards when he suffered a cardiac arrest on Thursday evening.

Lisa Fereday, who was attending as her daughter was nominated, said Mr Birchenall's first words were, "Wow, what just happened?".

His charity work has included putting defibrillators in public places.

Ms Fereday went to help after Mr Birchenall collapsed while presenting awards.

A Facebook post by Alan Birchenall

She said: "I started chest compressions and asked for the automatic defib to be brought to me as soon as possible and someone ran for that.